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THE SOUTHERN FASDOH COKFEDERAIIOK BULLETIH © 2008, Some rights reserved. See site for details. http://feral-chicken.com/ Volume 9 Number 2 September 2008 Page 1 The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin, Volume 9, Number 2 CONTENTS PAGE you may send the article as electronic mail or an attachment. If you wish to send the editor Buff's Broadside 4 computer media, 3.5 floppies, 100/250 MB Zip News 4 disk, CD and DVD-ROMS are acceptable. IBM Convention Reports 9 compatible file formats are acceptable. Media will be returned if requested. The Bulletin is laid Annotated Fanzine Listings 15 out in OpenOffice on a Pentium III based PC. Ink Southern Club Listings 17 and typewritten submissions are also graciously accepted. If youre not sure what all this means, Southern Convention Listings 20 get in touch to work out a solution. Letters of Comment 23 Throughout the Bulletin, you will find comments in italics and enclosed by brackets [like this]. Policies Those are comments from the editor, Warren The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin Buff, unless otherwise noted. Volume 9, Number 2, September 2008, is the Web Links official publication of the Southern Fandom Confederation (SFC), a not-for-profit literary The SFC web site is: organization and information clearinghouse http://www.southernfandom.com Convention dedicated to the service of Southern Science listings are from the Southern Fandom Resource Fiction and Fantasy Fandom. This issue of the Guide: http://www.scenic-city.com/sfrg Bulletin is edited by Warren Buff and is published Southern Fandom Classic Yahoo! Group: at least three times per year. Membership in the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SouthernFandom SFC is $15 annually, running from Classic/ DeepSouthCon to DeepSouthCon. A club or Ad Rates convention membership is $50 annually. Type Full Page Half Page ¼ Donations are welcome. All checks should be Page made payable to the Southern Fandom Fan $40.00 $20.00 Confederation. The Bulletin is also available for $10.00 trades, published contributions, and letters of Pro $80.00 $40.00 comment. As we are switching from bulk mailing $20.00 to first class, I will be trimming the mailing list at the end of the year. I'll give y'all several more SFC Handbooks reminders before I start trimming, though. This amazing 196 page tome of Southern Fannish Permission is granted to reprint all articles, lists, lore, edited by T. K. F. W. Reinhardt, is now and flyers so long as the author and the Bulletin available to all comers for $5, plus a $2 shipping are credited. All art is copyrighted by the artist, and handling charge if we have to mail it. The unless otherwise specified. An exception is Handbook is also available online, thanks to the granted in the case of art that appears in a efforts of Samuel Smith, at convention flyer. www.smithuel.net/sfcbh/. The SFC Handbook Errata page is: The editor encourages submission of lengthy www.smithuel.net/sfchb/hberrata.html. written material and art covers and illos. Contributions and LoCs via electronic means are highly desirable. If you wish to use the Internet, Page 3 The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin, Volume 9, Number 2 T-Shirts 12-point font. The print version will be in 10- Sizes Quantity (Animals) Quantity (States) point. This editorial will be printed in 12-point Medium 0 3 font, as an exception to my rule, just in case Large 1 1 someone reading this really can't handle the squinting. The 10-point version will do just as T-Shirts are $10 each plus $3 shipping and nicely in your collection. The 12-point online handling fee if we have to mail it. The first will be plenty easy to read. If you both have selection has a color design of cute animals on vision difficulties and limited internet access, white fabric. The second selection has black send me a letter (or give me a call), and we'll design of cute icons of states on peach fabric. arrange to have a 12-point print version made for SFC Patches you. Please let this be the exception, rather than the rule. These snazzy color SFC Patches are only $5 plus $1 shipping and handling fee if we have to mail it. Also, if your mailing label has an old date on it, like, say, anything ending in 2006 or earlier, I'll be Art Credits purging you from the mailing list and just sending Cover: Various strips of Feral Chicken by Joe you an email when we post this to the website, Komenda, available at http://feral-chicken.com/ unless I hear from you between now and then. Page 22: Mike Moon In other news, I've been meeting fans from all Officers Contact Information over, and hopefully, we're beginning to see a resurgence of Southern Fandom. My generation President Warren Buff, 2144 B Ravenglass Pl, has a whole ton of active folks, and we're just Raleigh, NC 27612; [email protected] starting to discover each other. I blame these Vice-President Julie Wall, 470 Ridge Road, recent discoveries on observant members of the Birmingham, AL 35206; [email protected] elder generations who've been pushing us towards Secretary Tom Feller, PO Box 140937, each other. You know who you are. Thanks. Nashville, TN 37214-0937; To my generation: I'm glad you're reading this [email protected]; zine, whether in print or online. I encourage you http://homtetown.aol.com/tomfeller to read the Southern Fandom Confederation Treasurer Janet Hopkins, 308 Dunbar Cave Rd, Handbook, which documents the glorious past of Clarksville, TN 37043; Southern Fandom. And I have something [email protected] important to note about it: today can be our glorious past. I hope you'll share it with me. Buff's Broadside One final note: I'll try not to take much time with Alright, I've hit upon a dilemma. It's expensive to this, but I'm working on a bid to bring the 2010 print the Bulletin, but still necessary. I want to NASFiC to Raleigh. The website is keep this an active forum for Southern Fandom, www.RaleighNASFiC2010.org – check it out. with a good loccol, lots of conreports, and other articles as they come in. Lastish, I made the decision to publish the zine in Southern Fandom News & Such miniscule 9-point font. I caught a little hell for New Southern Fandom Google Group that, since not all of our readers have perfect vision. So I'm going to attempt a compromise Laura Haywood-Cory has started up a new here. The online version of this zine will be in Google Group for fans across the South (and in Page 4 The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin, Volume 9, Number 2 the border states, of course) of all persuasions. white photos transported me to Rick's Cafe and We're trying to keep an open feel to it, like the had all the energy of a street bazaar. Photos of RTSFS list all are welcome who would call camel caravans, narrow streets with a Moroccan themselves fans and want to communicate with feel, marketplace scenes, Bedouin traders having others who do. The group is called Southern afternoon tea, ancient ruins crumbling into the Fandom (easy, yeah?) and can be found at desert sand, and a few lovely ladies - one even in http://groups.google.com/group/southern-fandom a belly-dancing costume. I was completely enchanted. Every envelope held treasures, both for Jack's family and for SF Fandom. Ruth told Adventures in Speerology, Part 1 me stories and we laughed a lot; it was lovely. We by Patricia Rogers especially had fun trying to figure out who all [Patricia did indeed write up a series of these theshapely young ladies were in the photos, and anecdotes. This is the first part, and further one in particular who was in many of the photos. installments are slated to appear in Askance #10, (These photos were taken long before Ruth met Planetary Stories #12, and Challenger #29. Jack!) These originally appeared as posts on mailing The next box was full of fanzines - no surprise lists, and are reprinted with Patricia's there. But wait...there was a surprise: they were permission. I encourage y'all to explore the other all addressed to Roy Tackett! Several of us in the zines and read the rest. - Warren] SF club here had wondered what happened to If y'all don't mind I will share with you my Roy's fanzines. We thought maybe some of his adventures in helping Ruth sort though Jack collection went to the Williamson Collection at Speer's papers. Maybe I should be writing this up ENMU in Portales but no one was sure. Ruth said as a continuing saga for a fanzine, as this process to me, Jack was the executor of Roy Tackett's is going to take awhile. If y'all have suggestions estate. Oh My! I thought as my brain reeled. Is it on a fanzine vs. posting it here - please let me possible that Roy Tackett's fanzine collection is know. I will forward this over to Mike Glyer too. here too? Certainly the bag after bag of fanzines In my heart I think every day I spend with Ruth, that had been mailed to Roy make that a real and going though Jack's papers on my own, will possibility. bring amazing discoveries. Today was packed full Next we went into Jack's office. There was a five- of them and all in the space of about 3 hours.
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